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Barbara Carrera

American model and actress

Barbara Carrera

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Barbara Kingsbury


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Bluefields, Nicaragua

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Barbara Carrera[4] (born Barbara Kingsbury) is an American actress, model and painter.

She starred in the films The Master Gunfighter (); Embryo (); The Island of Dr. Moreau (); Condorman (); I, the Jury () and Lone Wolf McQuade (). She is perhaps best remembered for her performance as SPECTRE assassin Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again (), for which Carrera was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

Carrera is also known for playing Clay Basket in the big-budget miniseries Centennial (–79), and as Angelica Nero on the ninth season of CBS prime time soap opera Dallas (–86).

Early life

Barbara Kingsbury was born in Bluefields, Nicaragua. Some sources give her birth year as or ,[1] but most list [2][3] She prefers to say [citation needed] Her mother, Florencia Carrera, was Nicaraguan, and her father, Louis Kingsbury, was an American who worked for the US embassy in Nicaragua.[5][6][7]

Sometime after the age of ten, Carrera moved to the United States to live with her father.

She moved to New York at the age of [8]

Career

Kingsbury began a career as a model at the Eileen Ford agency at the age of 17,[3] at which point she changed her last name to her mother's maiden name, Carrera.[4] Her first film role was as a fashion model in Puzzle of a Downfall Child (), which fared poorly at the box office.

In , she appeared on the screen in a publicity role for Chiquitabananas.[9] Carrera has appeared on the pages and covers of such magazines as Vogue, Paris Match, Harper's Bazaar, and twice posed for Playboy (July [failed verification] and March ).[10][dead link&#;]

In , Carrera earned her first Golden Globe nomination ("New Star of the Year - Actress") for her role in The Master Gunfighter.[11][12] She later played in such films as The Island of Dr.

Moreau, Lone Wolf McQuade, Condorman, Point of Impact, Tryst and Embryo.

Barbara biography carrera en Barbara Carrera. Actress: Never Say Never Again. Barbara Carrera was born Barbara Kingsbury on December 31, in Bluefields, Nicaragua. This stunning former model became best known for her screen performances playing a sinister femme fatale.

For her portrayal of the villainess Fatima Blush in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again, she earned a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture".[13] She worked opposite Laurence Olivier in Wild Geese II the following year.

On television, Carrera played a part in the soap opera Dallas as Angelica Nero, and more prominently, in the historical miniseriesCentennial in and Masada (opposite Peter O'Toole and Peter Strauss) in These roles brought her to the mainstream attention of American audiences.

She also starred as Emma Forsayth in the miniseries Emma: Queen of the South Seas in Carrera appeared with fellow "Bond Girls" Maude Adams and Kristina Wayborn in That '70s Show episode "The First Time" (s2,e16, ) as bridesmaids for another former Bond Girl, Tanya Roberts, in the role of Midge Pinciotti. Since Paradise (), Carrera has not appeared in films or television.

In , Carrera starred with Bette Davis in Wicked Stepmother, Davis's final film role. During filming, Davis fell ill and the script was rewritten for Carrera. "Instead, he rewrote the script to minimize Davis' role as the wicked witch who marries into an unsuspecting family, becoming the children's stepmother. In the original script, Davis was going to turn a cat into the beautiful Barbara Carrera.

In the new version, Davis herself turns into Carrera, who assumes Davis' lines for the bulk of the film."[14]

In , Carrera was appointed Ambassador-at-Large for Nicaragua by then-president Arnoldo Alemán.[15]

Carrera is also a painter and her work has been showcased in the Makk Galleries, with Americo Makk, in Beverly Hills, California since the s, and the Roy Miles Gallery in London, England.

In May , her works were exhibited at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum and have typically been sold for up to $8,[4]

Personal life

Carrera has been married and divorced three times, her spouses being:

  • Otto Kurt Freiherr von Hoffman. They married in New York City in (religiously in ) and divorced in (religiously in ).
  • Uva Harden (born ), a German fashion model and actor.[16] Married in , they divorced in July [17]
  • Nicholas Mark Mavroleon, a Greek shipping magnate,[18] a few years her junior, who is the younger and only surviving son of Manuel Basil Mavroleon (aka "Bluey") by his second wife, Gioconda de Gallardo y Castro.[19] They married on March 16, , and later divorced.[20]

Between marriages, Carrera dated Robert De Niro, Robert Evans, Alexander Godunov, Philip Niarchos, Richard Gere and Ryan O'Neal.[21][22][23] After her third marriage, she was involved with Henry Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland, who later died of a drug overdose in [24]

Carrera has no children.

Filmography

Film

Television

Year Title Role Notes
CentennialClay Basket Miniseries
MasadaSheva Miniseries
Matt HoustonSerena Gambacci Episode: "X"
Sins of the PastTerry Halloran Television film
DallasAngelica Nero Special Guest Star, 25 episodes
Mike HammerClaire Morgan Episode: "Lady Killer"
Emma: Queen of the South SeasEmma CoeMiniseries
Murder in ParadiseEmma Danton Television film
Lakota MoonStill Water Television film
Fortune HunterPresident Isabella Duarte Episode: "Countdown"
SawbonesRita Baldwin Television film
The Rockford Files: Godfather Knows BestElizabetta Fama Television film
JAGMarcella Paretti Episode: "Going After Francesca"
Lakota MoonStill Water Television film
That '70s ShowBarbara Episode: "The First Time"
Judging AmyFrancesca Messina Episodes: "Baggage Claim" and "My Little Runaway"

Notes

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